Do you have a death wish? Or are you secretly plotting to have me keel over before my time due to sleep deprivation and sheer frustration?

I understand that you don’t need to sleep. I understand that your brain is wired in some fantabulous way that means that you can function with a bees dick worth of sleep and wake bouncing off the walls.

Yeah I get that.

But Mummy can’t. Sorry about that.

So when you sleep for a couple of hours a night for 3 weeks straight Mummy gets a little cranky. Mummy doesn’t want to play Hyperdash, or endless Boo-draws-a-random-shape-in-the-air-and-Mummy-has-to-guess-what-it-is-or-Boo-has-a -freaking-meltdown games. Or listen to Spongebob Squarepants, The Sweet Escape, Bohemian Rhapsody, Shrek 12 Days of Christmas and a hundred freaking episodes of Homestar Runner on loop. All. At. The. Same. Time.

All day and night.

Sometimes Mummy likes to rest. Sometimes Mummy sits on the couch with her eyes shut. But Mummy never likes to be greeted with a poke in the eye or a yell in the ear of ‘Wake up I hungry’.

Cause the bastard turned the night time shenanigans up a notch. He is now the official time keeper.

I knew that bragging last night about him staying in his room was a mistake. I knew it would come and bite me in the arse.

I knew that Murphy hated me, that God and Allah and the Goddess were fucking with me.

But I just had to say that Boo was staying in his room.

And I was getting me some shut eye.

Last night Moo had her end of year break up. Yeah, a Sunday night.

Fabulous idea. IF you didn’t have to pick your kid (and a couple of ring ins) and work the next day.

So Mario-porn-star was going to pick them up. And I was going to go to bed. But I couldn’t sleep, cause I was terrified that he would fall asleep or forget to pick them up.

At 1am Boo woke up. Full of freaking jumping beans.

At 1.15am he wanders out…

‘Mum! It’s 1.15am’

‘Go back to bed Boo’

I lay in bed. I have been up since six.

My eyes flutter…

‘Mummy!!! It’s 1.30am!’

He is standing beside my bed. I walk him back to his room…

Lay down. The sound of a truck changing gears Mario-porn-star asleep beside me. Of course he doesn’t hear a thing.

‘Hey Mummy!!!! It’s 2.04am!’

‘Boo, it is time for sleep. You need to stay in your room’

Boo in room, me passed out on top of the bedsheets.

‘Muuuuuuum! It’s 2.28 am!’

He is standing inches from my face. I hold back the urge to smack him fair across the fucking room.

‘Boo back to bed.’

He has wet it. And the bedding. And himself. Shit.

Strip the bed, change the doona (we have many cause he uses them as toilet paper) change his clothes, wack another nappy on him and beg him to go to sleep.

Boo room. Me somewhere in the vicinity of the bed.

‘Oooh Mummy it’s 2.45am!’

‘Boo if you don’t go to sleep right now I will hurt you and make it look like a bloody accident’

‘Can I watch Cat in the Hat?’

Yeah, I had that coming…..

I feel a hand on my face. I am curled up at the end of the bed.

‘Hey Mummy! It is 3am exactly!’

‘Boo are you psychic? Are we going to win lotto?’

‘No’

‘Am I going to get any sleep tonight’

‘No’

So this continues until 6am. When the alarm goes off.

Mario-porn-star finally gets up after much poking and punching cajoling and complains of being so tired.

I resist the urge to grab his balls in a vice grip and say ‘Yeah me too.’

Get everyone where they need to go. 3 trips freaky neighbours…. all before 9am. And go to work.

S sees me and starts complaining he is tired.

He looks at my eyes.

I tell him to fuck off.

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as you can tell, I am really really tired. I have been awake since 6am yesterday morning. I haven’t come to visit you all today, cause in all honesty I have nothing in my head. I tried a couple of times and all I could come up with was ‘thanks’, good post or something equally banal. I am going to bed NOW cause the devil spawn is asleep and who knows how long that will last….

I don’t care that the extra hour of sunlight will kill the plants or fade the curtains or wake the cows early and curdle the milk. I hate the fact that it will now take ANOTHER FUCKING HOUR for Boo to go to sleep. His internal clock is permanently set on ‘awake’.

‘Get your feet off the wall’

Now I am lamenting that I let him play outside for that extra freaking hour – yes Daylight Savings gives an extra HOUR to play in the freaking mud – and then couldn’t be bothered giving him a shower just a wipe down (cause he has to shower in the mornings due to nocturnal mictruition) and now I have foot prints on the walls.

‘Put it down’

As he pulls a book from under his bed.

‘Give me that car. It’s sleep time’

Where the hell did that come from? He didn’t have it in the bed. I know it wasn’t there cause I had to change the sheets before he went to bed cause he used them as toilet paper five minutes before.

‘Lay down properly. It is nearly 11.30.’

But in his little melatonin diminished brain it is only still early. So par-tay on.

‘Get your hand out of Pikachu’s eye and GO. TO. SLEEP’

Boo has a soft Pickachu bedhead that I made him. Over the years he has picked the stuffing out of the eyes. And eaten it.

Interesting when you are wiping his arse and stuffing comes out.

I am so tired. That bone tiredness that makes your brain all fuzzy and your mouth feel like the morning after a big night out. My body is aching to go to sleep and Boo is doing the Macarena.

‘Leave my feet alone’

He is now resting his head on my feet.

‘Lay down properly Boo or so help me….’

giggle ‘Help you what Mummy?’

‘Don’t worry. Just go to sleep! Please, Boo, please. Go. To. SLEEP.

He is manically giggling. Bouncing around the room. I have tomorrow off work as a rec day. Gunna waste my day that I was going to spend cleaning (oh the joys of a working mother, rec days are for deep cleaning) walking around like a zombie. Or worse still, with Boo home.

‘Get our foot out of Pikachu’s ear!’

Oh God, someone, get this kid to sleep!

He has stopped moving. He is still. Is he….. asleep? Or has he passed out from choking on some of the the Pokemon pupil? Do I dare check?

A faint snore.

Oh. He is asleep. And it is only midnight. Better hightail it outta here and jump into bed cause who knows what time he will start the all-singing-all-dancing one man show again.

So there I was, at work. Everything was taken from my desk. I rang IT support and while talking to DH I was chatting to him on IM. That feral mum from school bugging me to use the phone while her snotty nosed kid was wiping her boogers on my nighty. DH was telling me not to tell anyone but my desk was cleared cause I got the job as a nurse in Maternity at the hospital.

‘Wake up Mum. It’s 7 o’clock’

My eyes flew open. SEVEN O’CLOCK!! My alarm didn’t go off!

I flew out of bed and looked at Too. Her eyes were hanging out of her head. Dark circles surrounded her enormous blue eyes.

‘What’s wrong babe?’ I enquired as I threw on some clothes. We need to be dressed and out of the house at 7.55.

‘Boo woke up at 1am. I sat with him cause I know how tired you are’

My heart melted.

‘He went back to sleep at 5.30. Sorry, I fell asleep so I didn’t wake you earlier’

Isn’t she just the best kid you have EVER seen!

What makes it even more betterer is she is in pain. Not better cause she is in pain, I am not that bad a mother, but she thought of me.

She has dermatitis on her feet. They are bleeding it is so bad at the moment. Because of that she is favouring one foot. Because of that she has hurt her ankle. Because of her ankle weakness, yesterday while doing sport she hurt her hip. So her whole lower body is ‘caning’ but she still stayed up all night with her brother because she knew her Mummy was tired.

Oh, Too, you are a super star!

So she is home today. She is not impressed cause she loves school (yeah! I know! A 14 yr old that loves school!) but she is hobbling around the place and I can’t stop smiling and hugging her.

And Moo is pissed off cause SHE wants to be the ‘golden child’. It is her birthday on Friday, and she is trying to score extra points cause apparently that equals extra presents……

and Boo has been awake since midnight. I have given up on trying to go to sleep. The warm fuzzies I was feeling are long gone and the kid is close to being smothered with a pillow.

If I only had the energy.

Right now we are watching an infomercial. Windsor Pilates. Sexy women with lovely legs. Boo is in his element. I am actually getting quite into it.

Where’s the phone?

Oooh! I just got an email. I’m gunna be rich! My friend (well he started off the email with Dear Friend, so he must be, right?) Fernando Carlos is offering me 25% of 16.5 million dollars. Some guy died with no ‘hairs’ so apparently we can just take it.

All I have to do is send him my name, address, bank details, phone number and occupation……

But wait! Mr Edwin Martin has just offered me 40% of 384 million pounds! And his offer has to be better because it is full of ! and “” as in, will be sent to you ASAP!! and “dead customer”.

Not really sure of what a “dead customer” is. The ” ” have confused me a tad. Does it mean he is “technically dead” or does that mean he is “dead when we say he is dead, just give us the go ahead and your bank details” dead?

Any rate. I’m gunna be rich! No calculations for me at 3am, but whatever percent of hundreds of millions of dollars is quite a lot huh?

I can get me a babysitter to deal with Boo’s nocturnal games, build a padded soundproof room and get me some sleep.

Oh and the Windsor Pilates system. Only $70 bucks every two months for drink coasters.

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